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Thursday, 18 December 2014

A very good morning to you all, I hope all your Christmas preparations are coming along and you are nearly ready for the seasonal festivities.

We have a full house from the DT for our December mid month post and they have come up with a fabulous collection of inspiration to share with you. The current Special Occasions theme (which includes Christmas) runs until 31st December so there is still plenty of time to join in or enter a second or even third piece of work for a chance to win one of the wonderful prizes on offer.

Sunday, 7 December 2014

It's been a fabulous year for the challenge and I would like to take the opportunity to say a few Thank You's. Firstly to our wonderful sponsors without whom the challenge would not be possible, then there are all of you, our dedicated entrants both old and new who continue to share amazing pieces of artwork with us and make it such a pleasure to visit your blogs every month. And last but by no means least my own personal thanks to my wonderful Design Team and their inspirational work which never fails to bring a smile to my face, you are all a pleasure to work with.

OK, now for this months theme................

********Special Occasions********

During the year we all have occasions in our lives when those special cards and creations are required, weddings, milestone birthdays, anniversaries, engagements, retirement and not forgetting Christmas which to so many is the biggest celebration of the year.

Usual rules apply, you can enter up to three times, combine with other challenges, use any make of stamp......but can I please remind you.......We must see hand stamping as the focal element of your artwork, it can be a stamped image/s, large sentiment or quote. But no digi images and entries using them WILL NOT be eligible for prizes or GDT spots. It so upsets us to see names come out in the draw who are not eligible for a prize because they have not read the rules.

Now on to the fabulous prizes..............................

Penny Black invite you to explore their creative world and see for yourself why their rubber stamps, stickers, beautiful papers for scrapbooking, cardmaking and stamp crafting are everyone’s favourites. Their products are designed to integrate style and colour for creating the best handicraft projects ever.

If you would like to be one of the first to hear about new products from Penny Black please click here to join the free club, plus their Facebook is full of activity and news. As it will be almost the New Year when the winners are announced I though some stamps suitable for Valentines Day, Mothering Sunday, or even Spring weddings.

FlonzCraft are a small family-owned design and craft company from New Zealand, a very small country where all people are great neighbours. We work hard for our work and store philosophy to reflect that in our company. We will never be ashamed of our products. Our main goal is making and selling rubber and clear stamps and we have and unique collection of stamps that you can not find anything else.

Nicecrane Designs offer a huge range of high quality Vintage inspired design sheets and images to create and compliment all your crafting projects from cardmaking to scrapbooking. Designs range from Vintage fashion and animals to well known children's characters such as Peter Rabbit and The Water Babies with new images being added to the range on a monthly basis.

Crafty Ribbons is a ribbon emporium, we are passionate about ribbons and want to share our fantastic ribbons with others. Our range of Christmas ribbons is second to none. Remember when we only used ribbons to add a bow to our hair, or tie up a birthday parcel ? Ribbons are now a "must-have" for all types of craft. Whether your project requires satin, sheer, silk, grosgrain, gingham or polka dot ribbon we have them all! Lots and lots of different colours in a range of widths. Need a little bit of ribbon inspiration - then have a look at our projects on our blog,or visit our Inspiration blog,or maybe join in with us at our Challenge blog. Go on, have a look... It's worth it ! Here is the prize................

Such a pretty collection of love and romance ribbons

Now for some inspiration and first up is our Guest Designer Tirpuunen who was selected from our October Penny Black entrants, she has made this delightful Christmas card to share with us all.........

Friday, 5 December 2014

Good morning to you all, I am here to announce the winners of our November challenge and what a month it turned out to be with over 250 entries, wow !! Myself and the Design Team really did have fun visiting all you wonderful creations, thanks to each and every one of you for joining in the fun.

With so many entries we would have had an impossible job selecting our winners so are very grateful to Ms Random Org., for doing the job for us, here we go with the lucky names..................

Congratulations to you all, please mail me by 11th December with your full names and postal addy's and don't forget to collect our winners badge to display on your own blogs. And prizes not claimed by that date will be re-drawn and winners notified by blog comment or e.mail.

Monday, 17 November 2014

Happy Tuesday everyone (well actually it's Monday, I forgot to click the schedule button), time for some mid month inspiration and as usual the girls have pulled out all the stops and have some wonderful inspiration to share with you all following this month 'Anything Goes' theme.

I hope we have inspired you and if you have not already joined in this month that you will do so, or of course enter a second or even third creation to double up your chances of winning on of the fabulous prizes.

Sunday, 2 November 2014

Welcome to out November challenge, this month we are going free and easy with................

******Anything Goes******

Usual rules apply, you can enter up to three times, combine with other challenges, use any make of stamp, but no digi images and we must see some stamping as the focal element of our work. Any entries failing to meet the rules may still receive comments from the DT but will not be eligible for the prizes on offer.

As usual the DT will be keeping their eyes open on their rounds for their favourite contenders for our Guest Designer spots from those using Penny Black products, so that just might be you !

Penny Black invite you to explore their creative world and see for yourself why their rubber stamps, stickers, beautiful papers for scrapbooking, cardmaking and stamp crafting are everyone’s favourites. Their products are designed to integrate style and colour for creating the best handicraft projects ever.

If you would like to be one of the first to hear about new products from Penny Black please click here to join the free club, plus their Facebook is full of activity and news.

Crafts U Love was formed in 2001 by Paul Baughton and Jenny Baughton. They are one of the largest stockist in the UK of die cutting and rubber stamp products as well as a wide range of general card making and scrapbooking products.

FlonzCraftn are a small family-owned design and craft company from New Zealand, a very small country where all people are great neighbours. We work hard for our work and store philosophy to reflect that in our company. We will never be ashamed of our products. Our main goal is making and selling rubber and clear stamps and we have and unique collection of stamps that you can not find anything else.

We have two Guest Designers this month, the first is my teamie Tracy from Allsorts who had gone with her favourite colour of purple for this lovely creation..............

And Helen who was selected from our entrants last month, she has created this lovely card for us with the sweet birthday image......................

And her are what the Design Team have created, as always a fabulous display of inspiration................

Brenda
Using Penny Black 3937H Birds on a wire, 3940F Life and 3948 Fireworks

Using Penny Black 30-229 Special Wishes, 30-140 Christmas Cheer, 40-359 A Day in Autumn